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- Nov. 3-6, 2005:
 conference
"Reading Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization after
50 Years" at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia
PA, organized by Dr. Arnold Farr.
See the conference
website with call for papers, registration form, and contact
information, as well as the program for each of the 4 days.
Call for papers (due by June 30):
The Philosophy Department at Saint Joseph's University
invites paper submissions to a conference devoted to the fiftieth anniversary
of the publication of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization. Papers
are welcome on a wide range of topics: explication of Marcuse's project
in Eros and Civilization; its place in his social philosophy; the influence
of Marcuse's work in the past fifty years; its place in a critical theory
of society; the importance of Eros and Civilization for fields such
as psychology, aesthetics, and political philosophy; and prospects for
a renewal of Marcuse's approach to social philosophy.
- added 10/28/07: Russell Rockwell's 5-paragraph summary of the conference
- Thursday
- Stewart Varner, Emory University, “Eros and Globalization”
- John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Marcuse at the Arcade: Video Games, Repressive Desublimation, and the Emergence of Postmodern Fascism in America”
- Todd Lavin, Clarion University,“Ego and Civilization: A Sobering Response to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
- Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania, “The Aesthetics of Life: From Burke to Marcuse”
- Peter Marcuse, Columbia University,
Commemorative Address
- Charles Reitz, Kansas Community College, "Herbert Marcuse on Aesthetic Education: Imagination, Death, and Reminiscence in Eros and Civilization"
- Irving Kurki, Independent Scholar,“Marcuse and the Search for a Global Alternative to Capital Domination”
- Friday
- Saby Ghoshray, Independent Scholar,“Understanding America’s War on Terror Through the Lens of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
- Aydan Turanli, Istanbul Technical University,“The Creation of the New Sensibility: Herbert Marcuse on Technology Critique”
- Jim Block, DePaul University,“Psychopolitics and Vision: Marcuse’s Post-Modern Dialectic of Transformation”
- Daniel Malloy, Appalachian State University, “The Two Bodies of Eros and Civilization: Marcuse’s Philosophy of the Body”
- Espen Hammer, University of Essex, “Critical Utopianism: Reflections on Marcuse and
Adorno”
- Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University, “Herbert Marcuse and the Birth of Critical Political Theory”
- Peter-Erwin Jansen, Frankfurt, “Marcuse Reception in Germany”
- Amy Wendling, Erik Anderson, Michael
Brownstein, and Jared Swanson, The Pennsylvania State University--
Panel Discussion: “Marcuse, Social Change, and Technology”
- Saturday
- Russell Rockwell, Fordham University, “The Marcuse/Dunayevskaya Correspondence and Marcuse’s “Philosophic Interlude” in Eros and Civilization”
- Joshua Rayman, “Testing Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
- Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco, “Beyond the Repressive Hypothesis? In Defense of
Eros and Civilization”
- Michael Schleeter, The Pennsylvania State University, “The Ambiguous Reconciliation of Eros and Civilization”
- Douglas Kellner, UCLA,“Herbert Marcuse and the Dialectics of Liberation: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Eros and Civilization”
- Arnold L. Farr, St. Joseph’s University, “Toward a Democratic Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Human Instincts: The Possibility of Marcuse’s Impossible Imperative”
- John Abromeit, University of Chicago, “Eros and Civilization, the Anthropology of the Bourgeois Epoch and the Persistence of Backlash Politics”
- Mark Cobb, Pensacola Junior College, “hooks, Lorde, and Marcuse: Exploring the Legacies of Eros and Civilization”
- Brian Lightbody, Brock University, “Can We Truly Love That Which is Fleeting? An Examination of Eros, Time and Death in Eros and Civilization”
- Sunday
- Liam Harte, Westfield State College, “Non-Repressive Civilization or Tyranny of the Prosperous Majority? The Performance Principle in the Marketist Age”
- Lucio Privitello, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, “Teaching Marcuse: A Critical Pedagogy of Aesthetic Dimensions”
- Stephen Hedges, Washington Bureau, “The Marcuse-55 Model and the XXI Century”
- Jason Rovito, Ryerson University, “Communicating the Historical Imperative: Marcuse in an Age of Irony”
- Zachariah Robert, Harvard Law School, "Play and Performance: A Comparison of Hannah Arendt's and Herbert Marcuse's Politics"
- Mitchell Aboulafia, The Pennsylvania State University, “Eros and Self-Determination”
- Mary Gennuso, CUNY, "Marcuse on Memory, Death and Time"
- Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University, "Hedonism and the Project of Eros and Civilization"
- Oct. 14, 2005: presentation in Starnberg
by KD Wolff, "Herbert Marcuse: Vernunft als erotische
Energie" (der Titel stammt nicht von ihm), in the Villa Böhler,
(jetzt Montessori-Schule), EUR 10.- Eintritt, veranstaltet vom Kulturbureau
Borst during Starnberg's "literarischer Herbst," . (See
also the entry on Wolff on the
Scholars & Activists Page.)
- Oct. 4, 2005: presentation
in Berlin by Dr. Wolfgang Lenk
 about
One-Dimensional Man.
"Klassiker der Kritik I: Herbert Marcuse - Der eindimensionale
Mensch (1964)"
Vortrag von Dr. Wolfgang Lenk, am 4. Oktober 2005 um 19.30 Uhr im Versammlungsraum
im Mehringhof, Gneisenaustr.2a, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Sponsored by the group
Anders arbeiten.
For more information contact: andersarbeiten@riseup.net.
| Beschreibung:
Marcuses Buch
stammt unverkennbar aus dem sog. "goldenen Zeitalter"
des Kapitalismus - es diagnostiziert den "Sieg über
das unglückliche Bewußtsein" durch die Kräfte
der Massenkultur, die Vergöttlichung von Arbeitsethos und
neuester Technologie. Und es war von größter Bedeutung
für die Revolte von 1968. Heute, in Zeiten des marktliberalen
Umbaus, sind wir erneut mit umfassenden Transformationen von Kultur,
Technologie und Menschenbild konfrontiert. Ist Marcuses eindimensionaler
Mensch ein Vorläufer des "flexiblen Menschen" (Richard
Sennett), also eines vollständig der Vermarktlichung unterworfenen
Lebensmodells? Was macht seine Analyse heute wieder lesenswert?
Was unterscheidet die Bedingungen für Protest damals und
heute? |
Blurb:
Marcuse's book
originated unmistakably during the so-called "golden age"
of capitalism - it diagnoses the "victory over unhappy consciousness"
by the forces of mass culture, the worship of the work ethic,
and by the latest technology. And it was of great importance for
the revolt of 1968. Today, in a time of restructuring of the liberal
market, we are again confronted with comprehensive transformations
of culture, technology and out image of humanity. Is Marcuse's
one-dimensional person a forerunner of "flexible humans"
(Richard Sennett), that is a model of life completely dominated
by marketing and consumption? What makes this analysis worth reading
again today? What differentiates between the conditions for protest
at that time and today? |
- July 19, 2005: To mark
Herbert's 107th birthday Doug
Ireland wrote an excellent blog entry, with reminiscences by Ron
Aronson, Lowell Bergman, Norman Birnbaum, Ariel Dorfman, Norman Geras,
and Jeff Weinstein (see the Scholars
& Activists Page for more information). The blog entry was a
featured link from ZNet, In These Times, and DissidentVoice.org. The
marcuse.org homepage received about 100-140 additional hits a day at
this time.
- May 18-20, 2005:
 conference "Dimensão Estética: Homenagem aos 50 anos de Eros et Civilização," Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- scans of 4-day program available here
- conference webpage was at: http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~dimensao/ (web archive version, Nov. 28, 2004)
- The title in English: "The Aesthetic Dimension: Homage to 50 years of Eros and Civilization"
- Note: "The Aesthetic Dimension" is the title of chapter 9 of Eros and Civilization (see E&C contents), as well as of Herbert's last monograph, published in 1978.
- invited speakers included: Jeremy J. Shapiro, Shierry Nicholsen Weber, Douglas Kellner, several German critical theorists associated with the journal Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, especially Gerhard Schweppenhaueser and Thomas Friedrich.
- Apr. 15, 2005: Panel
at the Amercan Educational Research Association Conference in Montreal:
"Marcuse's Challenge to Education."
- Session abstract:
The Frankfurt School critical theorist Herbert Marcuse's
relationship with education is both historical and philosophical:
historically, Marcuse was the proponent the 60s New Left student
movement, and philosophically, Marcuse's analysis revealed the democratic
impulse driving those movements. Now, almost 25 years after his
death, is Marcuse still relevant to education? This panel will answer
this question by arguing that Marcuse's work issues a challenge
to education to realize its practice as a force for political contestation
and democratic struggle against today's conditions of standardization,
high stakes testing, and "No Child Left Behind." Professor
Douglas Kellner, editor of Marcuse's collected papers and
whose work has convincingly argued for Marcuse's continued relevance,
will serve as moderator and respondent.
- Papers:
Clay Pierce, "Towards a Critical
Theory of Technology in Education: Marcuse and the Great Refusal"
Abstract: For Marcuse technology enables us to realize human potentials
and invigorates the imagination. Yet under standardization, technology
has been mostly used to reproduce technological rationality. Thus
Marcuse's concept of the "Great Refusal" enables educators
to critique current trends and realize technology in a democratic
process.
Richard Van Heertum, "Marcuse, Bloch, and
Freire: Pedagogy of Hope"
Abstract: Thomas Jefferson argued that an educated and informed
citizenry is critical to democracy, but today democracy stands in
jeopardy. This paper will explore the implications of Marcuse's
aesthetics in the enrichment of our curriculum to invigorate democratic
hope.
Richard V. Kahn, "Marcuse and the Dream of
Humanitas"
Abstract: Marcuse articulates education for life as an articulation
of the classical notion of Humanitas. The current movement of high
stakes accountability is a form of "technical rationality"
that threatens this concept of Humanitas. The paper argues that
Marcuse's vision of Humanitas is important but ultimately too narrow
and must be enlarged to address today's ecological crisis in order
to move beyond Eurocentrism.
Tammy Shel, "How can Marcuse's philosophy
help to understand the role of caring and moral education?"
Abstract: Marcuse's critique of technical rationality implicated
science in the undemocratic monopolization of political power. This
paper will call for a reconceptualization of science research for
an educational pedagogy of care.
Tyson Lewis, "Marcuse and the Multi-Dimensional
Body"
Abstract: Under current standardization, funds for the arts are
being cut. As opposed to this trend, Marcuse would argue for a pedagogy
of the senses and an incorporation of the body into education. Thus
in this paper, I will assert that the arts are central to any notion
of education for a fully realized human subjectivity.
Daniel Cho, "Than[a]tos and Civilization:
Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Instinct"
Abstract: Marcuse placed the question of human psychology at the
center of his political theory. He articulated the struggle for
democratic liberation with Freud's dialectic of the life instinct
and the death drive. In education, this dialectical tension between
the two drives meets its practice in student involvement in the
political process. In this paper I both acknowledge the importance
of Marcuse's insight while also suggesting that Lacanian psychoanalysis
brings a new dimension to Marcuse's analysis.
Dolores Calderon, "Marcuse and the Challenge
of New Epistemologies"
Abstract: Marcuse called for new epistemologies in his critique
of technological rationalism and Eurocentrism. In this paper, I
will further Marcuse's position through a turn towards indigenous
ways of knowing. For education, this would entail giving voice to
marginalized communities against standardization.
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